RailTel hosts AI-driven healthcare discussions at India AI Impact Summit 2026

New Delhi: RailTel Corporation of India Limited (RailTel) has successfully curated and hosted two panel discussions focused on artificial intelligence-driven healthcare at the AI Impact Summit 2026 held at Bharat Mandapam, the company said in an official statement on Monday.

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The summit was organised under the aegis of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the IndiaAI Mission, bringing together policymakers, technology leaders, healthcare professionals, researchers and innovators from India and abroad.

RailTel curated two sessions titled “Public Health Powered by AI: RailTel’s Collaborative Model for AI-enabled Inclusive Healthcare for Bharat and Beyond” and “AI for Inclusive, Accessible, and Universal Healthcare.” The discussions focused on leveraging artificial intelligence to strengthen public health systems, improve healthcare accessibility, and promote equitable healthcare delivery.

During the session on public health powered by AI, panellists highlighted collaborative models involving government institutions, healthcare providers, research bodies and technology partners. Discussions underscored AI’s potential in disease surveillance, early detection, clinical decision support, and population-scale health management, while stressing that AI deployment should help bridge healthcare gaps rather than widen them.

The second session focused on ensuring that AI-based healthcare solutions reach underserved and remote populations. Experts discussed the need for patient-centric policies, realistic deployment strategies aligned with ground realities, improvements in healthcare literacy, and outcome-based indicators to measure the impact of AI interventions. Key challenges such as limited high-bandwidth infrastructure in remote regions were also highlighted.

Speaking on the occasion, RailTel CMD Sanjai Kumar said the summit offered a platform to deliberate on how AI can drive inclusive and accessible healthcare, adding that RailTel sees itself as a key enabler in building secure and scalable digital infrastructure for AI-driven public health services.

The company said its participation in the summit reflects its commitment to supporting India’s digital transformation through ICT infrastructure and technology-led public service delivery. RailTel currently operates a nationwide optical fibre network of around 63,000 route kilometres, a citywide access network of over 21,000 kilometres, and one of the world’s largest integrated public Wi-Fi networks across 6,115 railway stations.

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